Alongside experts from arts and culture, Teresa Koloma Beck was part of the advising committee in the process of appointing a new director for Gropius Bau, an internationally leading exhibition spaces in Berlin. For further information, please visit: https://www.berlinerfestspiele.de/en/gropiusbau/haus/presse/pressemeldung_431957.html

Katharina Wuropulos is organising a panel at the 6 Nordic STS conference in Oslo, Norway, June 7, 2023 –June 9, 2023. Democracy is a spatial-material setting where problems are imagined to be taken care of and solved in participatory-sensitive ways. In this setting, building (good) public infrastructures, inclusivity, diversity, and…

At Leipzig University, Teresa Koloma Beck is presenting a journal forum on postcolonial peace and conflict research which she edited with Susanne Buckley-Zistel (Marburg): Decolonize! Critical inquiries into peace and conflict research. For further information: https://www.sozphil.uni-leipzig.de/institut-fuer-politikwissenschaft/arbeitsbereiche/internationale-beziehungen-und-transnationale-politik/veranstaltungen

At the conference „Drones in Civilian Airspaces: Security, Regulation, and Imagination” at Peace Research Institute Oslo, Katharina Wuropulos (HSU, Hamburg) will chair the panel „Drone imagination” and discussed the contributions of Dr. Anna Jackman (University of Reading, UK) and Prof. Dr. Kathrin Maurer (Center for Technology and Culture, University of…

Syria under Assad, Afghanistan under the Taliban, Russian-occupied areas in Ukraine and many others parts of the world are settings of atrocious war crimes and crimes against humanity that can never be atoned for. They represent a raw challenge to those who seek to advocate for the victims and their…

Which colonial continuities play a role in humanitarian action today? And what does this colonial legacy mean for the self-understanding of humanitarians today in terms of questions of principle, specific geographical and historical contexts, and concrete practices? These are the questions that the discussion series “Humanitarian Action and Coloniality” aims…